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This submission is being sent back to you because [describe the problem and name the problem file if there is more than one file in the package]. We look forward seeing your submission again with an alternative data file. Please see the following page for information about what to deposit in Dryad: <http://www.datadryad.org/depositing>. Let us know if you have any questions.

This submission is being sent back to you because [describe the problem and name the problem file if there is more than one file in the package]. We look forward seeing your submission again with an alternative data file. Please see the following page for information about what to deposit in Dryad: <http://www.datadryad.org/depositing>. Let us know if you have any questions.

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Some of the content you uploaded is under a [specify license, usually GNU General Public License], which is incompatible with the Creative Commons Zero waiver required by Dryad and to which you agreed when initiating the submission. We welcome you to re-submit any content that you are able to release under CC0. [Additional explanation, if relevant.] Please contact help@datadryad.org with any questions.

Responding about receiving the verification email from the registration system

(If someone complains that they didn't receive a verification email, first check whether they have already registered for a Dryad account. When someone attempts to re-register with the same email address, no error message is displayed, but the system fails to send a verification email.)

If they are already registered:

There is already a Dryad account associated with this email address. Try logging in, using the forgotten password link if needed: <http://datadryad.org/forgot>.

If they are not already registered:

I just tested the registration system, and it generated an email correctly, so the problem is somewhere in between the email being sent and it showing up in your inbox. Have you checked your spam folder? The sending address will be help@datadryad.org and the subject line will be "Dryad Account Registration." Let us know if that doesn't do the trick.

Responding to questions about author fees

Nov. 2011

Thank you for your inquiry about the costs of data deposition to Dryad, and for planning to deposit your data in Dryad. We're not able to give you a totally firm answer because the Dryad Consortium Board has not yet approved the proposed fee schedule, however the anticipated author deposit fee is $75- $100 per data package. (A data package = all the data associated with an article.) Additional charges may apply if the data package exceeds 10 GB.

Please note that author fees would only apply when the associated article/s are not published in a Dryad member journal. We understand the unpredictability involved in this, and your need to plan for this eventuality. Our fee structure is based on Dryad members supporting the costs of the repository, and reducing the barriers to authors' data archiving. Dryad members will also include funding organizations, which will be able to purchase vouchers to cover the costs of author fees when the journal is not a Dryad member.

Thanks again for planning on depositing in Dryad, and please let me know if you have further questions. Good luck with your proposal!

Responding to questions about permanence and stability of the repository

We take our commitment to the long-term preservation of data seriously. Dryad’s infrastructure is designed with multiple layers of protection, and is continually being improved to keep up with best practices in digital archiving.

Preserving the Bits

Repository contents are incrementally backed up every ten minutes. Full backups are made every 24 hours.

The repository is mirrored with sites in the United States (at the North Carolina State University Digital Library) and in the United Kingdom (at the British Library); we aim to have additional service mirrors in the future. We are proud that, to date, the service has had 99.7% uptime.

To provide further redundancy, Dryad is a member node within the DataONE data preservation network, and is expecting to become a member of CLOCKSS. Should Dryad cease operations at some point in the future, all existing content would still be available from one of these networks.

Dryad assigns DOIs to data packages and files, which helps ensure that users will still be able to find the content online for many years to come.

Preserving the Contents

To guard against digital file format obsolescence, Dryad is implementing curation processes, such as conversion of commonly used proprietary or binary formats to “preservation formats,” and periodic migration of files from old to new formats. At the same time, the files provided by the depositor will remain available in their original format.

Dryad uses highly portable technology. The software platform is built upon DSpace, sophisticated open-source software platform for managing digital collections, used by hundreds of institutions around the world, and actively maintained by DuraSpace, a non-profit foundation dedicated to "open technologies for durable digital content."

Preserving the Organization

In addition to the technical infrastructure, Dryad’s governance and business model are designed to provide for long-term organizational stability.

Dryad is in the process of incorporating as a not-for-profit organization overseen by a membership-elected board. Members of the Dryad Consortium include a robust network of stakeholders with a strong interest in seeing the repository persist, including journals, scientific societies, publishers, and other institutions.

Dryad has a sustainability plan and business model which ensure that revenues from payments for the submission of new data deposits cover the repository’s operating costs (including curation, storage, and maintenance). Thus, long-term funding for Dryad is not dependent on a small number of grants, or the continued largesse of a single host institution.

Responding to depositors who haven't opted in to having their article metadata sent to Dryad

Some journals, and [journal title] is one of these, require authors to accept their invitation to use Dryad before they send us the description of your manuscript. There should have been something in your manuscript acceptance message asking if you'd like to deposit data in Dryad. You can email the journal editors and they will send you a link to your pre-populated Dryad submission. Please note that you'll have to log in before proceeding with the submission.

Thanks and let us know if your have any further trouble.

Responding to depositors who need to create an account and log in

I tested your manuscript number, and the Dryad submission system recognizes it. The most likely problem is that you simply need to create a Dryad account and log in. You can do this by clicking the link the journal sent you, or going directly to the log in page here:

Responding to depositor who needs to submit new files to an item in "Journal Review" status

You can add the corrected files to your data package, and we will remove the outdated files during the curation process. Dryad does not allow files to be deleted while an article is under review. We only allow additions during this time. This restriction ensures that all reviewers may see the files that were originally submitted.

To add the corrected files, login to your Dryad account and click on the "My Submissions" link in the menu. Select the appropriate data package. At the bottom of the page for this package, you will see a button "Add new data file". After you have finished adding data files, please reply to this message to indicate which files should be retained during the final curation process.

Once your article has been accepted for publication, the Dryad curators will remove duplicate or outdated files.

Rejecting submission because there is no associated metadata email

Submission of data to Dryad associated with [journal title] requires that the journal first send a description of your manuscript to us. Either you have not opted in to using Dryad with the journal, or your manuscript is not yet at the appropriate stage for data archiving. Please use the submission link provided by the journal or enter a valid manuscript ID. Feel free to contact us at help@datadryad.org if you have any questions.

Rejecting submission because files are inappropriate for the repository

This submission is being sent back to you because [describe the problem and name the problem file if there is more than one file in the package]. We look forward seeing your submission again with an alternative data file. Please see the following page for information about what to deposit in Dryad: <http://www.datadryad.org/depositing>. Let us know if you have any questions.

Rejecting submission because files are inappropriate for the repository (non-CC0 license)

Some of the content you uploaded is under a [specify license, usually GNU General Public License], which is incompatible with the Creative Commons Zero waiver required by Dryad and to which you agreed when initiating the submission. We welcome you to re-submit any content that you are able to release under CC0. [Additional explanation, if relevant.] Please contact help@datadryad.org with any questions.

Asking depositor about potentially inappropriate files: content from the article

I'm ready to approve your Dryad submission and assign a DOI, but wanted to ask about the following file that you uploaded:[file name]

It appears that this file may contain content from the manuscript itself [or more specific phrasing], which would be inappropriate to release under Creative Commons Zero.

Please let me know if you would like to provide alternative data files, or if you have any questions about the type of files to submit, why Dryad asks you to release your files from copyright restrictions, and any other concerns you may have.

I'm ready to approve your Dryad submission and assign a DOI, but wanted to ask if you would be able to provide your data files in an alternate format, such as [give appropriate examples based on their file, like CSV, tab delimited, plain text]. Data in Dryad should be submitted in a state that is ready for analysis and optimal for reuse, so [the file format they submitted] is not ideal. Thanks for considering this request.

We are pleased to archive your data associated with "{Article title}" in Dryad. Once your article is published, your Dryad data package will be made public {note here if they selected one year embargo} and your data DOI will be registered. We encourage you to add this DOI to the final version of your article, as shown below.

I invite you to contact me as soon as possible when your article is published, as your Dryad data package will not become public until we finalize the record with article citation information. We are working to streamline this process for journals that aren't sending information about their articles to Dryad, such as {Journal title}. You may receive a redundant, automatically generated notification when your data package enters the public archive.

Thank you for your recent submission to the Dryad repository. Your data package has been approved and assigned a unique identifier, called a DOI, though it will be hidden from public view until the associated article is published. You may receive a redundant approval message when your data enters the public repository.

Title: {Article title}

Data identifier: {doi:10.5061/dryad.####}

Journal manuscript number: {manuscript number}

We recommend you add text to your article specifying the location of the data, for example:

Dryad links the data files to the published articles; it is up to journals to link published articles to their supporting data. Journal staff and authors collaborate to ensure that data DOIs are included in the appropriate locations for the print and online versions of published articles.

Thank you!

Alternate upload through Wetransfer

Yes, a file this large may have problems going through the normal Dryad submission system. If the file is available on a web server already, please send us the URL, and we can access the file directly. If the file is not already available on the web, please try our alternate transfer mechanism, Wetransfer.

Wetransfer (at http://wetransfer.com) will allow you to upload files and send them to a specific email address. Please use the email address curator@datadryad.org, and include a short description of your files.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

General intro to Dryad integration and membership

We'd be delighted to pursue integration with Dryad for JOURNAL. Authors are welcome to deposit data in Dryad associated with any published (or soon to be published article), but the greatest efficiencies come from connections we can build together, between the journal and the Dryad repository. Our process involves implementing coordinated data submission along with manuscript review; this shortcuts the process for authors to submit their data, and ensures that there are permanent links between articles and their data. It's also possible to make data available during the peer review process, if a journal wishes to do so. The Dryad team would be pleased to see how we can be of service to JOURNAL.

Below is some background and links regarding the implementation of integration between your journal and the Dryad repository, and membership in the Dryad organization.

INTEGRATION WITH DRYAD

Integration with Dryad allows journals to facilitate data archiving by setting up automatic notifications to Dryad from the journals' manuscript submission system. Advantages of integration include:

streamlining the authors’ data deposit process

permanently linking the published article with its securely archived data

ensuring that data files are discoverable, indexed, and exposed to both web and bibliographic search engines

enhancing visibility of the article via linking from the data files

permitting embargoes to delay release of data, in accordance with journal policy

There is no charge for implementing this integration process, and membership in Dryad is not required for integration of manuscript and data submission. The journal's editorial system sends automated notices to Dryad, providing the details of manuscripts under review or accepted, so Dryad can create a provisional record for the data, and the journal invites the authors to upload their data to Dryad. There are several optional customizations available, such allowing reviewers and editors access to the data during the review process, and enabling or prohibiting embargoes

Testing of journal notices to Dryad, reiterate until problems are resolved

Rollout to authors & ongoing integration

The usual time to implement this process can be as little as a few weeks; it's really just a matter of making sure that the notices we exchange are error-free.

Please feel free to browse and search the repository to see how it looks: http://datadryad.org/ [As of DATE Dryad contains XXXX data packages and XXX data files, associated with articles in XXX journals.] There's already XXX article from/s JOURNAL with associated data in Dryad: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.XXXX This data was voluntarily submitted by the authors last year.

MEMBERSHIP IN THE DRYAD ORGANIZATION

Dryad is both a repository and an organization. The organization consists of an international consortium of stakeholders, including journals, publishers and scientific societies, and provides a forum for all stakeholders to share knowledge and coordinate action around data policies. Dryad endeavors to ensure that all stakeholders are both contributing to and receiving the benefits of data archiving. It makes data archiving low-burden and high reward for researchers in a number of ways - for example, through a strong data citation policy, tracking of downloads, and enabling data authors to receive first authorship.

Partnership with Dryad is of value to journals and publishers because it provides a level of service well beyond that of Supplementary Materials - data can be independently discovered but have prominent links back to the original article, DataCite DOIs are assigned and included within the articles, metadata is curated, data files may be versioned, files are migrated to avoid format obsolescence, data can be made available for peer review, data embargoes can be honored, and so on. Dryad empowers its stakeholders in governance, so it is responsive to their needs, and it takes seriously the need for sustainability and long-term preservation.

Publishers, societies and journals can become Dryad partners through membership in Dryad; we are in the process of incorporating as a not-for-profit organization in the US and details will be finalized and publicized next month, so we expect to be able to welcome new members later in the year. Dryad members will receive a discounted rate for data deposits, select the Board Of Directors and receive the benefits of participation in membership forums. Annual membership dues of $1000 USD will help defray the communication and meeting costs associated with a large membership-based organization. The charges for data deposits are not yet set, but we expect they will be approximately $50 USD per data package (all the data associated with a given article.) I will ensure that you receive more information about Dryad's membership and payment plans as soon as it is available. Currently no fees are being charged for any Dryad services.

I will be glad to answer questions about membership and integration, and would be happy to set up a phone or Skype call with you if that would be helpful. Please let us know what questions you have and how you would like to proceed. Thanks again for your interest in Dryad and your support for data archiving. We look forward to hearing from you.

Welcome to the Dryad Partners list

I've added you to the Dryad Partners email list. This is a list for use by Dryad partner journals and publishers, who occasionally ask questions or share practices about issues relating to Dryad. Subscribers to the list are editors, managing editors and others involved in the editorial and production processes in journals that are sending metadata to Dryad, or planning to do so soon. There's not much traffic on the list-- it has been a good sounding board so far, for questions about revising journal instructions to authors to include reference to Dryad, etc. Dryad staff are also subscribed to the list and sometimes we use the list to get partner feedback or announce developments. The list address is partners@datadryad.org if you'd like to send a message or a question any time. Please let me know if you'd like to suggest anyone else that we should add.

As background about Dryad I'd like to be sure you are aware of the resources we have available. Here's a short overview:

on the repository website at http://www.datadryad.org/ in the left sidebar there's an About page as well as pages with info for depositors & users of data
the Dryad wiki at https://www.datadryad.org/wiki contains all documentation about the project, almost all of it open
the Dryad blog at http://blog.datadryad.org/ carries news and updates about the repository and data archiving in general
the Dryad team members are all happy to hear from you too, and the best way to reach someone is the general email address: help@datadryad.org

Thanks again and we look forward to working with you.

Information about data journals

Each submission to Dryad must be associated with a publication. We are glad to offer some suggestions for publication, in particular, data journals that might publish your findings and enable you to deposit the associated data in Dryad.

There is an emerging practice of journals publishing data papers, or descriptions of datasets, while the data files themselves are held in a repository like Dryad.

A data paper is a journal publication whose primary purpose is to describe data, rather than to report a research investigation. As such, it contains facts about data, not hypotheses and arguments in support of those hypotheses based on data, as found in a conventional research article. Its purposes are threefold: to provide a citable journal publication that brings scholarly credit to data publishers; to describe the data in a structured human-readable form; and to bring the existence of the data to the attention of the scholarly community.